Some 1 million pilgrims a year flock to Medjugorje, a Marian shrine located in a village 16 miles southwest from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Why does Sr. Julie Vieira, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have such a bond with Benedictine St. Scholastica?
Operated by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul for more than 10 years, Give Me a Chance addresses a wide spectrum of needs in Ogden, a town with a 12% poverty rate where many struggle to afford essentials.
"We have been targeting extremely poor households and asking well-wishers in the church to help us reach out to more people," said Sr. Matilda Mubanga.
During an event at the University of Arizona March 18 Tucson Bishop Edward Weisenburger and other Catholics noted the local impact of new federal air quality standards.
A direct challenge for any religious order is vocations, and this will be one of the trials faced by the Norwegian Trappist communities: a very small community of Catholics in Norway from which vocations could flourish.
From working with rural communities in Nicaragua to directing campus ministry for U.S. students in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sr. Laura Zelten's love for God drove her to put others first and draw them closer to Jesus.
Sr. Mary Roger Thibodeaux, a veteran member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and a leading Catholic light of the 20th-century Black freedom struggle, has died in Pennsylvania.
"Cachita" is etched in tattoos, street murals, cartoons and other artwork on the island. She is revered in makeshift home altars, songs — and at her shrine some 500 miles (805 kilometers) east of Havana.